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Memento Day, an annual event dedicated to preserving and celebrating the stories and struggles of students, returns to Meiningen, Germany on August 8, 2025. This year's event promises to be a memorable one, with the focus on inclusion, diversity, and the empowerment of marginalized voices.
What is Memento Day?
Memento Day is an initiative that aims to bring themes of transience, death, dying, grief, and end-of-life planning into public consciousness. Established to archive and celebrate students’ experiences and struggles, its purpose is to build an archive through interviews, films, and other formats that make these narratives visible and sustain them over time.
Purpose and Goals
The goal of Memento Day is to engage with people, break the ice, and talk about death, dying, but also about life and finitude. It seeks to prevent forgetting these stories and inspire awareness and similar archival projects within communities, highlighting the importance of memory culture and creating space for such stories.
The 2025 Memento Day Event
The 2025 Memento Day event will take place in the heart of Meiningen, Germany. It will be conducted in German, English, and German Sign Language (DGS) to ensure accessibility. The event will feature information booths where attendees can learn about various support options for the final stages of life.
Cinema Presentation: "The Last Beautiful Day"
A highlight of the 2025 Memento Day event is the cinema presentation of "The Last Beautiful Day." This family drama sensitively and realistically explores the difficult topic of suicide. On August 8, 2025, at 5 PM, a unique cinema presentation will take place at the city church in Meiningen as part of Memento Day.
Participating Organisations
Both the Sozialwerk Meiningen gGmbH and Helios Klinikum Meiningen will have information booths at Memento Day. The Sozialwerk Meiningen gGmbH will showcase their inpatient hospice in Meiningen, their ambulant children and youth hospice service, their specialized ambulant palliative care, their ambulant hospice and palliative care consultation, and their palliative care unit.
Helios Klinikum Meiningen will present their palliative care service at information booths on Memento Day. The city church in Meiningen is hosting this year's Memento Day event.
Memento Day has been an annual event in Germany since 2019, and this year promises to be another inspiring and informative day for all. Whether you're looking to learn more about end-of-life care, engage in thought-provoking discussions, or simply appreciate a powerful film, Memento Day 2025 is an event not to be missed.
On August 8, 2025, Memento Day, an annual event dedicated to preserving and celebrating stories, will host a cinema presentation of "The Last Beautiful Day," a family drama exploring the sensitive topic of suicide, underscoring the event's focus on mental health within health-and-wellness and science. The Sozialwerk Meiningen gGmbH and Helios Klinikum Meiningen will participate, sharing resources and information about end-of-life care, hospice services, and palliative care, highlighting the importance of addressing mental health within various health-related topics.
